Class Notes

Writer and assistant professor of politics Ahmed Khanani (IntlAf) serves as co-director of the Center for Social Justice at Earlham College. His book All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy was published in January.

After Ryan McMunn (Mktg) and his wife Allie recovered from COVID-19, they knew they had to act. The Tricam Industries CEO utilized his business experience to source hundreds of masks from a Chinese factory that produces ladders for his company. They donated the masks to UC Health Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Ryan lives in Denver and also is CEO and founder of BRIC language systems and founder of Leroy Street Capital. 

Kaite Barchas Wilson (Phil, Psych) was named Community Leader of the Year in the young professional category by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. Katie is president of The Market Group, Inc., a boutique marketing, public relations and events firm. She is also the founder of the High-Heeled Happy Hours, a women’s networking event series that honors female business leaders, and raises funds and awareness for local charities. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia, with her husband, three kids, two dogs, two cats and one fish.

Juli Rasmussen (Jour’02) helped organize the golf tournament Tiara Rado in Grand Junction in collaboration with the local Rotary and one of CU’s alumni chapters, Grand Valley Forever Buffs. The tournament raised money for engineering scholarships for Colorado Mesa University and CU Boulder students.

Daniel Livesay (Psych) wrote Children of Uncertain Fortune, which delves into the 18th-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain. An assistant professor at Claremont McKenna College, he focuses on early American and Atlantic history, examining the intersection of race, family and slavery in North America and the Caribbean.

Emmy-award winning producer Alexis Martin Woodall (Film) was nominated for a 2017 Emmy for her work on Feud: Bette and Joan. Alexis has won Emmys as a member of producing teams for The Normal Heart and The People v. O.J. Simpson. She and husband Dave recently opened a restaurant, Red Herring, in Eagle Rock, Calif.

Catherine Guzelian Bazile (Mus, PolSci), formerly a member of the energy group at Holland & Hart LLP in Denver, has opened a private practice, Summit Energy Law LLC, in Englewood, Colo. The firm will specialize in matters pertaining to oil and gas title and transactional work.

Tucker Hamilton (AeroEngr) and Aaron Frey (AeroEngr’02; MS’03) are both F-35 test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Tucker and Aaron are two of a handful of people testing all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Aaron is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps; Tucker serves in the Air Force. The friends grew up together in Evergreen, Colo., and played basketball on the same middle school team.

CU Boulder Veterans Club leader Rex Laceby (Hist) was awarded the Red Cross Armed Forces Hero Award. At the end of his acceptance speech at the Red Cross Heroes Soirée at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in March, Rex proposed to Sabrina Blosky, now his fiancée. Rex is retired from the Marine Corps after 21 years of service. He enjoys spending time in the mountains, climbing and skiing.

Tracy Bloch Lechner (PolSci) joined the intellectual property department of Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where she will lead cybersecurity and technology transactions. Previously Tracy worked as vice president for Outfront Media Inc., an outdoor media advertising company.

Entrepreneur and consultant Aaron Perry (MGer) works with social enterprises to enhance company culture and holistic balance. He has a new book, Y on Earth. Aaron and his partner, Winter Wall, also offer workshops for companies, colleges and community groups.

After years of successful homebrewing and beer writing, Dave Carpenter (MAeroEngr) was named editor-in-chief of Zymurgy, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association. Dave lives in Fort Collins, Colo.

Last October the Centennial, Colo., men’s tennis team, a part of the U.S. Tennis Association’s adult league, took the national title at the USTA National Championships for adults with the hard work of team captain Jerad Harbaugh (Bus, MInfSys) and teammates Bryan Knepper (Psych), John Dietz Fry (Biochem’00) and Chris Celechovsky (EPOBio’98). Jerad, Chris and Bryan played on the CU men’s varsity tennis team during their time at CU Boulder.

Brokerage firm Drexel Hamilton announced the formation of an energy industry research team that includes John Ragozzino (Fin). He has 15 years of institutional equity experience, and has previously worked for Wells Fargo and RBC Capital Markets.

Regina Brigid Stewart (ArchEngr) teaches math at Arvada West High School in Colorado. She recently obtained her master’s degree and next year will be teaching AP calculus. She loves spending time at home with her children Tyler and Kiera and baking in the kitchen.

After spending 11 years as an anchor at KOB in Albuquerque, N.M., Nicole Brady (Jour) returned to Colorado and is now a reporter and anchor for Denver7 on weekday mornings. She and her husband live in the Denver area with their two children.

Curious Minds: 40 Hands-on Activities to Inspire a Love of Learning, a book written by Azeem Vasi (Chem) and Tyler Kolstedt (Hist’04; MEdu’10), is intended for teachers, parents or homeschoolers searching for new ways to motivate and engage students between the ages of 9 and 12. Curious Minds takes a multidisciplinary approach to learning and incorporates science, social studies, math, language arts and world languages. Azeem and Tyler were roommates at CU.